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Pashtun tribes. Qais Abdur Rashid, the legendary patriarch of the Pashtun people; Groups claiming affiliation with the Israelites. Dasht-e Yahudi, a Mughal-era term for the "Jewish Desert" that was Pashtun-inhabited territory; Nimat Allah al-Harawi, a Mughal-era chronicler who compiled a Persian-language history of the Pashtuns
The first Pashto alphabet was developed by Pir Roshan in the 16th century. [261] In 1958, a meeting of Pashtun scholars and writers from both Afghanistan and Pakistan, held in Kabul, standardized the present Pashto alphabet. [262]
Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6] [7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity have been based.
Farming villages came into existence in Afghanistan about 7,000 years ago. [4] People become Pashtunized when they settle in Pashtun-dominated areas and adopt Pashtun culture and language. [5] Pashtunization is a specific form of cultural assimilation and has been taking place in Pashtun-populated regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan for several ...
"Pathan" is the local Hindavi term for an individual who belongs to the Pashtun ethnic group, or descends from it. [6] [7] [a] The Pathans originate from the regions of Eastern Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan, [11] [12] ethnolinguistically known as Pashtunistan.
Tarbur means "cousin" in Pashto, so tarbur could be an enemy as well in the Pashtun culture that they can occupy your land or property. Every Pashtun tribe is then divided into subtribes, also called khel or zai. Zai in Pashto means "descendant". William Crooke has said that khel is from an Arabic word meaning "association" or "company". [11]
I have read in the Mutla-ul-Anwar, a work written by a respectable author, and which I procured at Burhanpur, a town of Khandesh in the Deccan, that the Afghans are Copts of the race of the Pharaohs; and that when the prophet Moses got the better of that infidel who was overwhelmed in the Red Sea, many of the Copts became converts to the Jewish ...
Pathan recruits in the First World War as part of British Indian Army. Colonies of Pathans (Pashtun people) arriving in Punjab are accounted for by Sir Densil Ibbetson in the following manner: During the Khilji, Lodi and Surid dynasties many Pathans migrated to Punjab especially during the reign of Jalal-ud-din Khalji, Bahlol Lodi and Sher Shah ...